AND THEY CALL US HATRIOTS

So, in my last column I lost a great opportunity for the title, from Between Two Rivers, “And they call us hatriots?” Lucky for me, in researching the first column, I stumbled across plenty of other instances of “liberal free speech”, which cannot be regarded in any, way, shape or form hateful.

We won’t even go into the whole anti-Semitic thing. Only conservatives can be anti-Semitic, and are instantly labeled Nazis. Lefties cannot be guilty of this. Even when they use phrases, as did Jesse Jackson, such as “Hymie” or “Hymie-town”, or when, like Hillary Clinton did to a campaign staffer, call them, “a f***ing Jew bastard.” We still hear more about Newt Gingrich telling his mother he thought Hillary was a bitch.

Now, recently, lib talking heads have been accusing Beck, Palin, and Limbaugh of sedition. Let’s compare their "outrageousness" to the less than subtle liberal pleas during the last administration?

"Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Well, we've been watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don't have an intifada in this country? Because it seem[s] to me, that we are comfortable in where we are, watching CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and all these mainstream... giving us a window to the world while the world is being managed from Washington, from New York, from every other place in here in San Francisco: Chevron, Bechtel, Carlyle Group, Halliburton; every one of those lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving individuals are in our country and we're sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it's about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know every-- They're gonna say some Palestinian being too radical -- well, you haven't seen radicalism yet." – A Berkley (go figure) prof with the appropriate first name of Hatem calls for an American intifada.

"General Pace - you have the power to fulfill your responsibility to protect the troops under your command. Indeed you have an obligation to do so. You can relieve the President of his command. Not of his Presidency. But of his military role as Commander-In-Chief...To be crystal clear - I am NOT advocating or inciting you to undertake any illegal act, insurrection, mutiny, putsch or military coup...In addition to relieving him of his command as Commander-In-Chief, you also have authority to place the President under MILITARY arrest." -- Martin Lewis at the Huffington Post demands a military putsch to oust Bush.

"I think if Kerry were to win this in a tight race, I think there would be an effort to mount a coup, quite frankly." -- Bill Moyers

Now examine the following quotes. Imagine if anyone said them today but substituted “Obama” for “Bush”. I guarantee you that would be a whole different ball game. Then it would finally become hate speech; the politicians and the talking heads would be demanding your arrest, re-education, and hanging.

"Voting for Bush is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded." Democratic political flier in Tennessee

"(George Bush) is ten times the terrorist that Osama ever was." -- Cindy Sheehan

"It's quite reasonable to conclude that Bush will harm the nation more--if not more than Bin Laden would like to, than more than he actually can." -- Johnathan Chait

"I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president. The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected." -- Kurt Vonnegut

"George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control." -- Julianne Malveaux

"Despite all of this stupid bullsh*t that the Republican National Committee, or whatever the f*ck they call them, that they were saying that they're all angry about how two of these ads were comparing Bush to Hitler? I mean, out of thousands of submissions, they find two. They're like f*cking looking for Hitler in a haystack. ...George Bush is not Hitler. He would be, if he f*cking applied himself." -- Margaret Cho

Not so very long ago, endless fantasies, threats and allusions to killing Bush were never-ending. But somehow these were legitimate political discourse, and certainly not “hateful in any way.”

"John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" Charlie Brooker, British columnist, ending a column about George W Bush.

[Caption under footage of George W. Bush]: “Snipers Wanted”.--Craig Kilborn show

“Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw! (imitating the sound of a gunshot). Works for me.” Randi Rhodes, left wing talk radio, referring to the Godfather movies and Bush

"A spoiled child (Bush) is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little b*stard. [audio of gun being cocked]." –Randi, again, showing why liberal talk radio is such a dismal failure that it must be kept financially afloat by George Soros.

Hell, lefties, why not just kill anyone and everyone you don’t agree with? It’s not like they have a right to free speech or anything.

"If I had my way, I would see Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell strapped down to electric chairs and lit up like Christmas trees. The better to light the way for American Democracy and American Freedom!" -- Democratic Talk Radio's Stephen Crockett


To Congressman Eric Cantor and his “cupcake evil wife..." "Remember Eric...our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy f**king pig, you're an abomination, you receive my bullets in...your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abominations." – Long-time Democrat and Obama campaign contributor Norman Laboom.

But why stop at killing individuals, oh gurus of tolerance and non-hate? Why not kill all Republicans?

"Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm." -- Michael Feingold in The Village Voice, somehow managing to work this rant into a theater review.

Who else should we snuff, oh peaceful and benevolent lefties?

"There is a sound case to be made for dropping a tactical nuclear weapon on the Cuban section of Miami. The move would be applauded heartily by most Americans. Alas, Operation Good Riddance would require the sort of mature political courage sadly lacking in Washington, D.C., these days."--Syndicated columnist Alexander Cockburn

Charlton Heston? "Shoot him with a .44 caliber Bulldog." says Spike Lee.

Well, we don’t have to actually kill everyone. Some can just be maimed.

"He’s one more mistake away from not having any kneecaps."--James "Serpenthead" Carville on Ken Starr.

How about killing people just for their choice of cars?

"...but the kind of people who would buy a car that increases the risk to other motorists in an accident can't be reasoned with. They're selfish and stupid. It's unfortunate that drivers must worry that their SUVs are being targeted by insulting stickers and Molotov cocktails, but one thing's for sure: It couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of people." -- Ted Rall

Now that Christians, especially white male Christians, are the only group in America that it is officially OK and politically correct to bash, the bashing comes hot and heavy. Of course, if you talked about the Religion of Peace in this manner, you would probably be lined up against a wall and shot. But if you can villainize a Christian, lefties consider it your patriotic obligation and duty to do so.

"The group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the religious right." the ever-objective PMSNBC's Chris “Tingly Leg” Matthews said.

"Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."-- Rosie O'Donnell

"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. Suck it, Jesus, this award is my god now!" -- Kathy Griffin

But it is not enough to merely degrade Christians. No, let’s wish to have them all killed off as well. Hmmm. I’m sensing a pattern here. Replace the word “Christians” with “Jews” and change the calendar from 2010 to 1937 and see what you get.

Taxpayer-funded "non-partisan" National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu on his "All Things Considered" says of Christians, "The evaporation of four million who believe in this crap would leave this world a better place."

Cerebral actress Megan Fox wants fictional critter Megatron to murder all the "white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super Bible-beating people in Middle America."

"So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." T-shirt in a Palm Springs gift shop

Speaking of wishing people dead, there’s a long line of death wishes from the left towards anybody in the wildly popular and avidly followed real talk radio world, the one which doesn’t have to be supported by donations from lefty wackos to stay on the air.

"I have good news to report. Glenn Beck appears closer to suicide. I'm hoping that he does it on camera....given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-destruction, I am only hoping that when Glenn Beck does put a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, that it’s on television, because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular little piece of video for months."-- Liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy

(Rush Limbaugh)" just wants the country to fail. To me that's treason. He's not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden is saying. You might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. ... Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?" -- Wanda Sykes

The left, the NOW’s and the NAG’s, the pro-choicers, say they have always been the champion of womens’ rights. Unless, of course, those women are pro-life, Christian, or conservative. And if they get mutilated or killed because they’re under Shari law from the Religion of Peace, well hell, those women don’t count. Let’s see how these leftist saviors of downtrodden women’s rights treat those ladies who don’t properly obey their Leftist ideology.

“Now you got Uncle Women, like Sarah Palin, who jumps on the s--t and points her fingers at other women. Turncoat b---h! Don’t you f--kin’ reference Old Testament, bitch! You stay with your new Goyish crappy shiksa funky bulls--t! Don’t you touch my Old Testament, you b---h! Because we have left it open for interpre-ta-tion! It is no longer taken literally! You whore in your f--kin' cheap New Vision cheap-ass plastic glasses and your [sneering voice] hair up. A Tina Fey-Megan Mullally brokedown bulls--t moment.”-- That, of course, from the lovely and polite intellectual Sandra Berhard. You’d think it would be hard to top a rant like that, wouldn’t you? Wrong.

"O&A - 'Condoleezza Rice'"
Charlie - "I'd love to f**k that b*tch dude" (laughter)
Charlie - "She's the F**kin’ man"
O&A - "Yeah."
Charlie - "I'd F**k that b*tch...."
O&A - "I just imagine the horror in Condoleezza Rice's face...."
- "(laughter) ..... as she realizes what's going on"
- "...as you were just holding her down and F**kin’ her."
Charlie - "punch her all the f**kin’ face, shut the F**k up b*tch"
O&A - "that's exactly what I meant" (laughter in background)
Charlie - "you know F**k it .... and George Bush wife? I'd f**k that b*tch to death" -- Radio Shock Jocks Opie & Anthony and their guest "Homeless Charlie".

The left must have a thing about abusing women.

"If I got (Condi Rice) a— on camera, I would put my Mars Air Jordans so far up her butt that the Mayo Clinic would have to remove them." -- Spike Lee

"It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her." -- that pillar of journalistic integrity, Geraldo Rivera

Michelle Malkin is “a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” and a fascist according to the always calm and rational Keith Olbermann on PMSNBC.

"I used to have violence fantasies about Scott McClellan because of the inpenetrable wall of idiocy and supposed ignorance, some of which was probably not supposed, that behind which he used to hide at every press conference. All those feelings are being shifted now to Dana Perino, violence fantasies." -- Liberal radio host, Mike Malloy

Ann Coulter is a “she-devil” according to VP Joe Biden

"Well, I think you're right. I think you hit on something there. They're attractive especially to the Republican Party, which is not known as a party that really does well with the opposite sex. Usually they're doughy white men and I think they look on Michele Bachmann and, and Sarah Palin, as you know, M.I.L.Fs and I agree, they're Morons I'd Like to Forget."-- Bill Maher yucking it up with Chris Matthews.

The loony left is completely and totally oblivious to irony as well.

According to Michael Weisskopf of the Washington Post, the followers of people like the late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command." As opposed to the wealthy, intellectual free-thinkers chanting creative slogans like, “Yes we can! O-ba-ma! Hope and change! Gim-me money!”

"Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention." -- Bill Maher. I have to agree with Bill, for once. Well, 51% of them anyway.

Nope, say the socialists and their free cheerleaders in the Propaganda Ministry. No hate speech on the left. Talking about killing individuals or large groups of people is not hateful at all, unless someone at a Tea Party insinuates anything remotely resembling it. And definitely nothing that they say could possibly instigate any violence.

Like setting fire to Sarah Palin’s church in Wasilla, with the congregation still inside. Or Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas state mansion being fire-bombed and destroyed in June 2008. Californians who were for Proposition 8 were viciously targeted and assaulted by militant gay rights advocates. A pastor's car was shot up because he supported a ban on gay marriage. Rep. Eric Cantor (R.-Virginia) has his office struck by gunfire. The only actual physical violence at Tea Parties and townhall meetings came from purple-shirted SEIU thugs. In 2009, in a bit of a contrast to the Tea Parties, the Left marched through Pittsburgh, smashing windows, setting fire to public and private property, and injuring police officers over...I dunno, they were pissed about something. Ecoterrorists have set fire to universities, government offices, businesses, and homes since the 1990s.

Or how about the 2008 RNC rally in the Twin Cities, where bus windows were smashed with bricks and sandbags dropped off overpasses onto them, where two Texas men were arrested for building Molotov cocktails with the stated intent of fire-bombing the convention. An associate of theirs threatened to kill the undercover FBI informant who nixed the plot. If it got any press coverage outside of the Twin Cities, I didn't hear it. Then there is one Milton "Skip" Ohlsen III, a Democrat Party strategist and pal of two Missouri Democrat big-time legislators, who planned, executed, and then tried to cover up a bombing (in which he accidentally blew up the wrong man) in Clayton, MO. Hey, wait a minute! How come we never saw these stories on the evening news but we've been force-fed crap about the Hutaree for weeks now?

While we're on the subject of hate speech causing violence... in 1995, the “Reverend” Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton led protests against a Jewish-owned store called Freddy’s in Harlem, NY over what was essentially only a landlord-tennant dispute. After bringing in his large group of protesters. Sharpton personally incited them, calling the store owners “bloodsucking Jews!” “white interlopers!” and “Jew bastards!” and threatening to burn the store to the ground.

After many days of this, a man named Roland Smith apparently took the reverend Al’s words to heart. He burst into the store, shouting, “It’s on!” and opened fire. He wounded four people with gunfire, set the building on fire, resulting in the deaths of seven people in the story above, then blew his own brains out.

By the Ministry of Truth’s template, Reverend Al’s words had absolutely nothing to do with the incident. In fact, it’s not even worthy of covering on the “news”. But Rush Limbaugh personally caused the OKC bombing! And he’s trying to do it again, with some new friends.

"You rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah Federal Building explosion. [M]aybe at that point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out. Maybe at that point, Limbaugh will do the honorable thing and just gobble up enough - enough Viagra that he becomes absolutely rigid and keels over dead. Maybe then O'Reilly will just drink a vat of that poison he spews out on America every night and choke to death! Because that's what's gonna to happen, that's what they are pushing these right-wing, nut case, fringe, militia jerk-wads to doing!”--liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy

A bit like the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it Mikie? Then they wonder why their ratings are plummeting, nobody believes them anymore, and they become more irrelevant every day.